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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-03-26
A Dangerous Little Animal.

The name porcupine is derived from
the French words pore, n hog, and epin,
a spine.
The porcupine has short legs, sharp
claws. and short. broad tail. Like
the rabbit, it has chsel teeth for gnaw-
ing. 1t moves slowly. both in walking
and in climbing. AS it can not run, it
has an excellent way of defending it
self Its back and sides are covered
with sharp-pointed quilts from two to
three inches long. When the porcu-
pine is moving about. these quills lie
back flat like hair; but when there is
any danger they stand out straight.
When it sees an enemy approach.
it folds up its paws, curls its head
under its forelegs, and forms itself into
bundle of sharp quilts. If an animal
should snap at it then. the quilts would
get into its mouth and stick there.
Each quill has barbs like II tish-hook.
and animals have often died from the
quills working into their flesh after
having tried to bite porcupine.
The quills easily break of, but as
they grow like hair, the animal is al
ways well supplied with Il good means
of defense. 1t can throw up its back,
or strike hard blow with its tail.
driving the quilts into the flesh of its
enemy. When hunting the porcupine.
men are very careful not to be struck
by the tail, but they watch their chance
to strike the animal on the nose with u
club, which kills it mt once.
The porcupine is covered with a
coat of warm, soft fur besides the thick,
sharp-pointed quills. 1t is very slug
gish, and sleeps nearly all the winter.
only coming out occasionally to get
something to eat. ltc II easily climb
trees, and feeds upon bark. leaves and
tender ears of Indian corn. 1t lives i'm
hollow trees and in holes among rocks.
r. E., in Chiidren's Friend.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-03-26

ness were within easy reach Of the
Government, has passed by. The
statements of defalcations and swind-
ling of all kinds are to be found in the
public records, and form incontro-
vertiblc and damning evidence against
the party that controlled the Govern
ment and allowed official rascality to
sprout, come up and grow to luxuri-
ant maturity. Argus.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-03-26

The fact that ice so well retains the
cold of winter, even in the climate of tho
tropics. isa wonderful MS well rs bene-
ficent provision of nature boston Her
cd.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-03-26

Some 'iiremen, somewhere, evil
IDENTIFY smitten with somebody, gave
the following toast; Cupid and his
torch, the only incendiary that can
kindle flame which the engines can
not Quench."
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-03-26

A Frenchman estimates that in a
life of fifty years II man sleeps away
six thousand days, walks eight hundred
days, and the rest OF the time feeds and
fusses.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-03-26

--"I have theory about the dead
languages" remarked Il Brown Uni.
versity freshman. II think they were
killed by being studied too hard. ~
Providence IeleQrana.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-03-26

IhlS Is but single instance OF the
unwillingness of high officials under
the Republican Administration to bring g
dcfaulters and swindlers to Justice.
E1 ,tno disco o,nncs. So secure did the
gang of rascals who so long fattened
upon the Government feel in their long
immunity from punishment, by the
strong grip they held on those who
might have brought them to justice,
that they did not realize for long time
the consequences of tho change from a
corrupt to an honest Government t..
When they did realize they formed a
"combine" against Mr.. Cleveland and
his Administration, tribute to honesty
rarely paid Chief Executive of this
Nation. Where most of the creatures
of the lobby congregate there will be
heard angry mutterings against the
Administration. When agents of rot
ten corporations sit down together are
heard curses deep and loud.
The Democratic Administration has
so well fulfilled its first and most i'm
portanC duty, the publication Of the
Government, that the scandals that
produced such fruitful harvest every
year have ceased to exist. 1t needed
only an Administration that believed
In business principles and honest exc
cution Of the laws. dominated by res
olute, fearless man, to bring about the
change. To tho Democratic Admins
tration is due the reform that pervades
every branch Of the public service; to
the Republican Administration il due
the failure to punish those who robbed
the Government. The time when tho
biggest rogues could be punished,
when documentary evidence aud wit
Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-13
Placer County,s FruIt Cron.

There never has been better fruit crop
in Placer county than this year, with the
possible exception of two years ago, but
this years prices are good and the growers
are all doing well. The following state
ment concerning shipments and prices at
Newcastle was made up Saturday evening.
The Newcastle Shipping Association has
shipped thus far this season seventeen full
carloads through to the East. q. d. Kel-
logg and Wilson & Son have shipped about
twelve more. The Cooperative house is
shipping considerable fruit, but sell mostly
to Earl & Co. In addition to the full car
lots, the four houses are together shipping
an average of a little more than car
day by freight and express to their
local trade. Crawford and Chinese cling
peaches are coming in plentifully, but
Hale's are about out; 60 to 20 cents a box
has been paid for good peaches. Bartlett
pears have been coming in for about a
week, and the first were sold at 81 so a
box of 40 pounds. Saturday they were
selling for from 81 Is TO 81 25. Apricots
are nearly gone. Nectarines are lust COM
ing in and are worth from rs to So cents.
Apples are scarce and are worth from 81
to 81 Is box. Not half enough of plums
are to be had to fill orders, and shippers
are paying from Is cents up for 20-pound
boxes, or about twice as much as last year
Watermelons and cantaloupes are plentiful
and sell for 81 so dozen. Sweetwater
grapes are the only grapes in any guam
tity yet and are worth 81 crate. As rule
the fruit is carrying better than last year,
and the business is most satisfactory to all
concerned.-Placer Republican.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-13
A STRANGE CAREER.
The Story of n Woman Cursed by the
Drinking Habit.

Mrs. Jennie Crammer, the woman who
has caused our officers SO much trouble by
her drunken antics, has rather strange his
tory Born in an Eastern State of rich
and aristocratic parents (Hyde was her
maiden namel, her future life was one,
seemingly, of sunshine and happiness She
was married when quite young to hand
some and rich young man by the name of
Crammer, of old Puritanical stock.
Nothing was wanted 10 make up life's ro-
nance for her. They drifted to California
and lived in elegant style in San Fran
cisco. But the young husband died, leav-
ing the bulk of his property to his wife,
who, either crazed by grief or pos
sessed of fascination for life of revelry
and drunkenness, We cannot say which, be-
gan spending the fortune left her with a
lavish hand and in princely manner. She
carried her excesses to such an extreme
that her friends took her in hand and had
guardian appointed over the remnants
OF her property, which now amounts to
some $4,000 in cash, and out of this sum
she Is allowed $50 per month. She, in her
downward career, has figured in the Police
Courts of San Francisco, Sacramento,
Marysville and Chico. Last April she re-
ceived a sentence of thirty days at Oroville
from Judge Schooler, served her time and
returned to Chico, where she has been
carrying on her debauches ever since.
Yesterday she was drunk on the streets
again and was arrested by Chief Rusby.
A strange incident took place when she
arrived at the City Hall. Among the
prisoners was a man by the name of James
Beckwith, who Immediately recognized
the woman, and asked her if she remem-
bered him. She did, and acknowledged
Beckwith as her former coachman when
she was living in affluence and splendor in
the East. She was fined $40 by Judge
Leaman this morning, which she paid.
She made arrangements to secure Beck
with's release, paid the balance of his fine,
S4, and the two left the hall together.
The woman shows traces of former beauty
and refinement, but it is almost eradicated
by the marks of intemperance, and from
her appearance this morning one would
judge that life's race was well nigh run
with her-Chico Enterprise, Auq 9th.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-13

sisting of $4,000 acres 1t is located nine
miles west of Red Bluff, and is on the
streams tributary to Reeds creek. The
land is rolling, and to some extent tim
bered. The soil is in some places what is
so well known as red SOIL" but is mostly
that same clay loan which commences at
the Montezuma hills, north of the Sacra-
mento, and runs along the whole base of
the Coast Range to the Siskiyou Mount
aims. This ranch has bountiful supply
of water from mountain streams, springs
and wells. Eight thousand acres are un-
der a substantial board fence, and are in
cultivation for hay and grain. The re-
naming $1,000 acres are used exclusively
for pasture. The place is divided into five
farms. each one with houses, barns, corrals,
gardens and orchards. There are two
large pastures, fenced with board fences,
for the pasturage of fine blooded horses,
cattle, sheep and swine. The home place
has fine house, large barns, granaries and
bearing vineyard and orchard On this
place this season we're 5000 acres of
wheat, which averaged over 20 bushels of
No. milling wheat. The pasture land is
mostly used for grazing sheep, and is furn-
ished with number of herder's cabins
corrals, shearing buildings, and all the re-
quirements and conveniences of sheep
ranch. This place is for sale, and it will
be cut up into small tracts tc suit pur-
chasers
Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-13
The Etraire Crane.

Felix Gillet, Of Nevada City, writes as
follows: would call the attention OF
the Vitieultural Commission to the fact
that most all the Etraires, family of
wine-grapes cultivated for very long time
in the south of France are said to be phyl-
loxera-proof, so that the planting of that
grape in phylloxera-infested VINEYARDS
would do away with the difficult and pre-
carious process of grating, and grating
above ground is liable to so many acct
dents. | notice that the Etraires are
being extensively planted in France. or at
least planted where before they never were
thought of. Some four or five wears ago |
introduced into this State the Etraire de
PAdui, the finest of the Etraires, simply to
experiment upon it as wine-grape, not
knowing at that time even that it was a
resistant stock, or said to be. find this
Etraire to be very vigorous grower and
heavy bearer; the punches are large, shoul-
dered, well set; the berries medium large.
oval, black, and ripening before Zinfandel.
What kind Of wine the Etraire would
make in California | have had no chance
yet to ascertain, not having more than four
large vines of this Etraire. Now, it seems
to me that it would be well on the part OF
the Commission to find out whether the
Etraire will resist the attacks of the phyl-
loxera here in California as well as they are
claimed to do in France and then encour-
age the planting of that kind in phyllox-
era-infested lands. / believe that Etraires
will make as good wine, if not better, than
Zinfandel."
Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-13

not pay to grow grain upon il. In full
bearing fruit, this rich bottom land would
produce more than the whole Vaca dis
trict now produces; more than the whole
present product Of Placer county and fully
as much as all the orchards of Santa Clara
now produce.
All this points to the division of this
botteEn land into 20 and 40-acre tracts and
its occupation by three or four thousand
families. 1t would take an army to till
$4,000 acres of orchards, pick, pack and
ship their products. The near future,
however, will solve this question Even
now Mr.. Cone is ready to sell portion of
it. He offers for sale l 800 acres of the best
bottom land adjoining the Vina tract There
is no better location in the world for a
colony than this tract offers Mr. Cone
exercises the full and complete super
vision over this great property, but
| by perfect system he has reduced that
supervision to minimum. At his home
place he has a telephone that connects
with instruments at all the farm divisions,
and with his mercantile house in Red
Bluff. Through this means each day in
the year he can direct all his vast business.
MIR. Cone has fine country home, where
with his family he dispenses a generous,
but unostentatious hospitality. A great sue
cess in business never worked less change
in man than it has in j. S. Cone. He is
the same modest, retiring, self-contained
man now that he was when he came empty
handed to the State. No community has
a better citizen than he is, and one who is
foremost In every enterprise that promises
to advance the interest of Tehama county
or the State
Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-13

seen at yina, in the adjoining Deer
creek district, on the old Dye, Toomes,
Thomes and Chard grants, in the orchards
of General Chipman and Bruce B. Lee,
opposite Red Bluff; in the orchards of
Messrs. Drane, Stoll, Duncan and Hook,
near Red Bluff on the highlands; and in
more than a hundred small but prolific
vineyards and orchards on Battle creek,
the Cottonwoods, Reeds creek, Red Bank,
Elder, Thomes and Stony creeks
THE VANTAGE GROUND
Which Tehama county now occupies in re-
lation to the great markets of Oregon,
Washington Territory, British Columbia,
Idaho, Montana, Dakota and Minnesota,
will create an intense activity in tree and
vine-planting which will transform the
wheatfelds of Tehama into orchards and
vineyards, will create many Naca, New
castle and Santa Clara districts, and cover
her great land holdings all over with thou
sands of happy and prosperous homes.
GREAT PACKING AND SHIPPING HOUSES
Will be organized, and there will be scores
OF dryers and evaporators and the trans
portation companies will find profitable
business III transporting the products of
the orchards vineyards and vegetable gar
dens.
What these changes mean for Tehama
county and the transportation companies.
may be dimly seen in the production and
shipments of Newcastle this wear, which
will reach more than 600 carloads of fruit
in those of the Vaca district, which will
exceed
90 go 80
30,000,000 POUNDS OF VEGETABLES AND
FRUIT,
And this years crop of apricots in Santa
Clara county, which exceeds Is, 900 tons, and
in her whole tree-fruit crop, which amounts
to the enormous figures of $4,000 tons, OF
$500 carloads. This does not include
the products of her vineyards or her small
fruits, which would largely increase Santa
Clara's figures. The small station of SAINTS
Clara, near San Jose. through the berry
season, shipped on an average 40 tons o.
| blackberries, and some days the ship
ments cached ITO tons each
TEHAMA HAS GREAT DESTINY
Before her, and she has the men and
women of energy, enterprise and foresight
to work out that destiny. The home.
seeker and capitalist will find all the peo.
pie of the county willing and anxious to
give truthful information about the county
There is Board of Trade in Red Bluff
and its Secretary, George Jeffries, has an
office full of facts relating to the county
NJ. Il. Hook, Bruce B. Lee, and Messrs
Goodman & Brown are large and response.
bic real estate dealers. Mr.. Hook is
Chairman of the Board of Supervisors and
Mr.. Lee is one of the best known citizens
Of Northern California. Any information
these parties give may be relied on.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-13
THE GREAT VIVA RANCH.
A Passing Glance at this Celebrated
Donation to University Purposes

A Passing Glance at this Celebrated
Donation to University Purposes.
South of the Cone estate is the celebrated
Vina ranch, a princely property, which,
through the unexampled generosity of
Governor and Mrs. Stanford, has become
the heritage of the children and people of
the Pacific coast. 1t embraces $4,000 acres
of land, several thousand of which are in
this rich river belt, which has no superior
under the sun. To fully describe this
priceless heritage of our children would
require volume. There are $500 acres
in vines, nearly 5000 of which are in
bearing; 5000 acres are in alfalfa, 5000
acres in grain and the balance is used for
pasturage. The ranch carries 10000 sheen.
under the management of Mr. Champlin,
who has an interest in the sheep and their
product; 800 head of the finest strains of
blooded brood mares and colts, 400 head of
herd-book cattle, of which 100 head are
herd-book Holsteins and 800 head of
Jerseys and Durhams 1t requires 80
mules and $50 head of work horses to run
this ranch. There are
ONE HUNDRED MILES OF IRRIGA ATINC;
DITCHES
On the place, through which water is
brought from Deer creek. Immense i'm
provements are now being made at Vina.
In addition to the great number of build
ings already on the place, new one-story
brick winery, 297x467 feet; two-storv
brick winery 101x157 feet, with a third
story in the center for grape crushing;
distillery, 35x95 feet, with an l., 32x60
feet, and bonded warehouse 70x200 feet.
These buildings are of the most solid and
substantial character, and will cost a vast
sum of money.
EXPERT WORK IN wINE-MAKING.
Governor Stanford has engaged H. w.
Mcintyre, an expert vineyardist and wine
maker, to superintend the production of
grapes, and the manufacture of wine. The
results of his labors will determine the
kinds of vines to be planted in the future.
and the kinds of wine to be made, not
only at Vina, but in the whole Sacramento
valley. In this respect the work now
being done is of the utmost Importance to
the whole State, and will be a guide to
vineyardists and wine-makers all over the
coast.
As above indicated, no satisfactory de-
scription of the various industries and
grand developments to be seen upon the
Vina Ranch can be given in the space that
could be assigned it in an article like the
present upon Tehama county The farm
is without peer in the world. 1t con-
tains the largest vineyard ever planted,
and in many other respects is as wonderful
and celebrated. While no attempt at its
description will be here attempted, an arti-
Gle devoted exclusively to the subject will
be published at an early date in the
REcoRD-UNIoN, showing some of the more
recent developments and improvements
made upon the estate.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-13

A New PUZZLE IN ScIEScE.-Ou sus.
pending small cylinder of ivory over a
table by fiber of cocoon silk, and bring
ing second cylinder within about twen.
ty-fifth of an inch of it, the first cylinder
Immediately begins to rotate. The dis
coverer, NJ. Thore, regards this as demon
strating the existence of an unknown force
in the human organism, as he believes that
the rotation is independent of the nature
of the cylinders, and that light, heat, cleo
tricity, magnetism, gravity and air currents
are inadequate to explain it. The alleged
new force has been investigated. however
by William Crookes, who, while admitting
his inability to explain all the phenomena
exhibited, considers that the motion is
simply due TO the radiations of heat from
the observers body, and finds that a bottle
of hot water will rotate the cylinder quite
as we'll.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-13
A Remedy for the Scale.

A successful remedy for the scale bugs
on fruit trees has been prepared by A. T.
Covill, Chairman of the Board of Super
visors of Fresno county. He used it on his
peach trees last spring when they were Just
budding out, and the result.was fine crop
of peaches. The new branches grown since
the remedy was applied are bright and free
from scale. The old branches and bodies
of the trees were sobadly damaged by the
scale bugs that the new growth of limbs ON
many of the trees has the appearance of
coming from almost dead bodies. The old
scale-poisoned bark is now peeling off, leav-
ing new and healthy bark under it. Mr..
CovilPs remedy is fifty pounds of unslaked
lime, twenty pounds Of French sulphur,
and fifteen pounds of salt, prepared as fol-
lows: Place ten pounds of lime and twen-
ty pounds of sulphur in heater with
twenty gallons of water. Boil for half an
hour or more until both lime and sulphur
are dissolved. The sulphur must be thor
oughly dissolved and mixed with the lime;
the mixture will then be of an amber
color. Next place in box or cask forty
pounds of good lime and pour upon it
enough soft hot water to thoroughly slacken
the lime and keep it in liquid form. At
ter the lime is thoroughly Stacked add
fifteen pounds of common salt while the
material is hot When the salt is dis
solved mix the two lots together with suffi-
cient water to make sixty gallons of spray
ing material, which will then be a thin
whitewash. The material should be
strained after being thoroughly mixed-a
good piece of burlap answering well for
the purpose. Apply the mixture with
spray pump, using a rubber plate in the
nozzle instead Of the brass plate The rub
Der plate must be cut from blocks of pure
rubber, OF nearly so, and not from cotton
mixture; it may be cut from the blocks
used where buggy shafts connects with the
axle. 1t should be cut evenly and about
one-tenth of an inch thick, with a verv
small incision made in the center with a
fiat awl or sharp-pointed knife, the awl
being best as it makes an even hole, which
prevents the spray from going to one side.
The rubber plate will permit any small
article to be forced through the hole in it.
as it will expand and thus save the time
of cleansing out brass plate. Apply the
material warm or cold. Care should be
taken to wet every part of the tree: and
for the body of the tree hold the nozzle
close TO the bark to force the LIQUID into
ali the creviees.-Stockton Nail